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From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
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Subject: How to auto-detect a USB drive?
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I want to have a process running on my FreeBSD box that automatically detects when a USB drive is inserted. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? I know I could simply monitor /var/log/messages and look for the appropriate events to appear, but is there a more elegant way?